Some of you may remember that.

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.

A health status of a nation parallels development of that nation.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

There's no comparison at all.

Fifty years ago, when I was a medical student in Boston, we were in the midst of the cardiovascular disease epidemic.

Then you start to take a look at adult life.

One out of two of you women will be impacted by cardiovascular disease in your lifetime.

18.Rare diseases

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

Centers for Disease Control.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

At that time, much of the fat in the American diet was still not directly linked to coronary heart disease.

So I have for a long time said that what we really needed was a rapid diagnostic.

And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

There are some great resources out there.

And this is something that sobers us in our field everyday in that, obviously, we've made remarkable impacts on cardiovascular disease, but look at cancer.

It is interesting that in the United States, the most significant health care budget goes to cardiovascular disease care, whether it's private or public.

These are years that we could get.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

And we then can re perfuse the liver with cells, preserving the blood vessel tree.

Blood flows through blood vessels.

It's gonna be going initially through a giant vessel.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things

And the capsules in her blood stream.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

Come on, I'll take you there. ( slow, dramatic theme playing )

It was a study to specifically ask, what's going on with women?

Blood runs in the veins.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

You know, where did these things come from?